# Humphrey

Humphrey is both a masculine given name and a surname. An earlier form, not attested since Medieval times, was Hunfrid.
Notable people with the name include:

## People with the given name
### Medieval period

    Ordered chronologically
* Hunfrid of Prüm (Saint Humphrey, died 871), Benedictine monk
* Humphrey of Hauteville (c. 1010–1057), Count of Apulia
* Humphrey de Bohun (disambiguation), various people who lived from the 11th to 14th centuries
* Humphrey of Toron (disambiguation), four 12th-century nobles
* Humphrey, 2nd Earl of Buckingham (1381–1399), English peer and member of the House of Lords
* Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390–1447)

### Modern era

* Humphrey Atkins (1922–1996), British politician and a member of the Conservative Party
* Humphrey Barclay (1941–), British television comedy producer.
* Humphrey Bate (1875–1936), American harmonica player and string band leader
* Humphrey Bland (1686–1763), British Army general
* Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), American film actor
* Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster
* Humphrey Cobb (1899–1944), American novelist and screenwriter
* Humphrey Critchley-Salmonson (1894–1956), cricketer
* Humphrey Crum-Ewing (1802–1887), English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1874
* Humphrey J. Desmond (1858–1932), American politician, writer, lawyer, and newspaper editor
* Humphrey Gilbert (1539–1583), English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier
* Humphrey Henchman (1592–1675), Church of England clergyman and bishop of London from 1663 to 1675
* Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950), English filmmaker and co-founder of Mass-Observation
* Humphrey Lyttelton (1921–2008), British jazz musician and host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
* Humphrey Mitchell (1894–1950), Canadian politician and trade unionist
* Humphrey Moseley (died 1661), prominent London publisher and bookseller in the middle seventeenth century
* Humphrey Mwanza (1949–2015), Zambian politician
* Humphrey Nyone, Zambian military officer
* Humphrey Owen (1702–1768), Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
* Humphrey Rudge (1977-), Dutch Footballer
* Humphrey Searle (1915–1982), English composer
* Humphrey Wells, former Governor of Georgia
* Humphrey Wingfield (died 1545), English lawyer, Speaker of the House of Commons of England between 1533 and 1536

## People with the surname
### Arts and entertainment

* Bobbi Humphrey (born 1950), American jazz flautist and singer
* Doris Humphrey (1895–1958), dancer
* Earl Humphrey (1902–1971), American jazz trombonist, brother of Willie and Percy
* Jake Humphrey (born 1978), television presenter
* Maud Humphrey (1868–1940), American illustrator
* Nene Humphrey (born 1947), American artist
* Ozias Humphrey or Humphry (1742–1810), English painter
* Percy Humphrey (1905–1995), American jazz trumpeter, brother of Earl and Willie
* Renee Humphrey (born 1975), American actress
* Scott Humphrey, Canadian record producer and mix engineer
* Willie Humphrey (1900–1994), American jazz clarinetist, brother of Earl and Percy

### Politics

* Charles Humphrey (1792–1850), American lawyer and politician
* Friend Humphrey (1787–1854), New York politician
* Gordon J. Humphrey (born 1940), U.S. senator from New Hampshire
* Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978), Vice President of the United States
* Jasper Humphrey (1812–1892), American sailor and politician
* Lester H. Humphrey (1850–1902), New York state senator
* Muriel Humphrey (1912–1998), U.S. senator from Minnesota and wife of Hubert Humphrey
* Philander P. Humphrey (1823–1862), American politician and physician
* Skip Humphrey (Hubert H. Humphrey III, born 1942), son of Hubert H. Humphrey II
* William E. Humphrey (1862–1934), American politician
* Wolcott J. Humphrey (1817–1890), New York state senator

### Sports

* Chris Humphrey (born 1987), footballer
* Claude Humphrey (1944-2021), American former football defensive lineman
* Creed Humphrey (born 1999), American football player
* Julian Humphrey (born 2003), American football player
* Lil'Jordan Humphrey (born 1998), American football player
* Marlon Humphrey (born 1996), American football player
* Ryan Humphrey (born 1979), American basketball player
* Tasha Humphrey (born 1985), professional basketball player
* Terin Humphrey (born 1986), American gymnast
* Tory Humphrey (born 1983), American football player

### Science and academics

* Heman Humphrey (1779–1861), President of Amherst College
* James Ellis Humphrey (1861-1897), American botanist and mycologist with the botanical author abbreviation Humphrey
* John H. Humphrey (1915-1987), bacteriologist and immunologist
* Nicholas Humphrey (born 1943), British psychologist
* Philip Strong Humphrey (1926–2009), American ornithologist
* Thomas M. Humphrey (born 1935), American economist

### Other fields

* Alexander Pope Humphrey (1848–1928), American lawyer, judge of chancery court
* Andrew Humphrey (1921–1977), Marshal of the Royal Air Force
* Edward Porter Humphrey (1809–1886), American Presbyterian minister, author, Presbyterian General Assembly moderator
* Edward William Cornelius Humphrey (1844–1917), American theological and legal scholar
* Hannah Humphrey (active 1745–1818), British publisher and print seller
* John Peters Humphrey (1905–1995), Canadian jurist
* Lewis Craig Humphrey (1875–1927), American newspaper editor
* Mose Humphrey, American and member of Fire Company 40
* Watts Humphrey (1927–2010), American software engineer

## Fictional characters

* Sir Humphrey Appleby, on the BBC television show Yes Minister
* Sir Humphrey Pengallan, main antagonist of the film Jamaica Inn
* Sir Humphrey Pumphrey, antagonist in Rupert
* Dalton Humphrey, on The Red Green Show
* Dan Humphrey, Gossip Girl character
* Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, in James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake
* Humphrey B. Bear, an Australian children's TV character
* Humphrey the Bear, a Disney character
* Humphrey, a muppet on Sesame Street
* Jenny Humphrey, Gossip Girl character
* Rufus Humphrey, Gossip Girl character
* Humphrey, OMORI character